There is a Cosworth on ebay with VIN 1V77E5U218612 . This is a V-8conversion and has extensive fiberglass spoilers and wings and things.The question is that I seem to have seen this car before, or I may beconfusing it with IMSA? Monzas or else?

Hey Gerry, I don't have that one in the database but if I was a betting man, I would say that VIN is off dash # 0656. Let me know if you find out any more info on it. I looked on Ebay but I didn't see it. Chris

This Tag is/was originally affixed to a 1975 Chevrolet Motor DivisionVega body assembled at Lordstown, OH. The Lordstown factory installeda Cosworth Vega engine that had been assembled in Tonawanda, NY intothis body. It then built this vehicle as a Cosworth Vega model.

It was the number 118612 Vega built for this production year.

The Lower Left Corner of the BODY TAG of this car should read:218612C.

--- In <a href="/group/cosworthvegas/post?protectID=219233066105193209050199029077192253163098100009128121188190230091025019053061151110147">cosworthvegas@yahoogroups.com</a>, cswrth1 <<a href="/group/cosworthvegas/post?protectID=091233212180056219138097203245129208071">no_reply@y...</a>> wrote:> Hey Gerry, I don't have that one in the database but if I was a > betting man, I would say that VIN is off dash # 0656. Let me knowif > you find out any more info on it. I looked on Ebay but I didn'tsee > it. Chris

That is why I didn't find it. It was listed as a GT. That is interesting that someone took the time to put a GT dash bezel and horn button in the car. I have no record of that car but there was a 76 Cosworth #2150 that Bob Maloy did that had an IMSA body kit on it that you might be thinking of. There is also an early V-8 Vega on Ebay right now that has an IMSA body kit on it out here in CA. Chris

--- In <a href="/group/cosworthvegas/post?protectID=219233066105193209050199029077192253163098100009128121188190230091025019053061151110147">cosworthvegas@yahoogroups.com</a>, cswrth1 <<a href="/group/cosworthvegas/post?protectID=091233212180056219138097203245129208071">no_reply@y...</a>> wrote:> That is why I didn't find it. It was listed as a GT. That is > interesting that someone took the time to put a GT dash bezel and > horn button in the car. I have no record of that car but there was a > 76 Cosworth #2150 that Bob Maloy did that had an IMSA body kit on it > that you might be thinking of. There is also an early V-8 Vega on > Ebay right now that has an IMSA body kit on it out here in CA. Chris

There was another Cosworth that has a Hooker body kit. It was a one page article in Hot Rod(?), were the owner crunched the front end and decided to install a Hooker kit. It was a 1975 Cosworth and I believe that owner was in Ohio.

Bob, I am not sure if this is the one that you are referring to but there was an article in the July 85 issue of Car Craft about a guy named Steve Walker that had an IMSA Cosworth. He had hit a tree and opted to put on the body kit and it had a 75 front end although it had 76 tail lights. I am guessing he hit the tree in the front and decided to use the 75 style front end for his repair. I don't think that is the same car as the one on Ebay. Mainly due to 2 facts, the one on Ebay has 75 tail lights and has the fuel filler on the top of the flare where the one in Car Craft had the filler still in the side of the quarter. There was another IMSA Cosworth that I found out about that was a 76 green/buckskin car. The body got rusty and they chopped it up. If there was another one in Hot Rod, please let me know so that I can update my records. Later, Chris